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In reply to the discussion: OOPS: McCarthy Accidentally Posts & Frantically Hides Extreme MAGA Agenda (But We Have Screenshots [View all]There is now a legal precedent for an unborn having the full legal rights of a living person in Texas. I know that Texas will make full use of this. Precedent is to be honored if it advances their patriarchal cause.
I left the term off after unborn, because I can't say fetus. It could be a zygote. There are distinct developmental stages and what you call it changes depending on the stage.
This is simply insane. No culture that I'm aware of has ever believed something unborn is endowed with either spiritual or legal rights.
Once you declare that human life begins at conception--that a zygote is imbued with person hood--then legal insanity begins. A woman becomes a secondary person with lesser rights. The growth inside her, like something out of Alien or Rosemary's Baby, suddenly has more rights than the host.
This all nauseates me. My wife and daughters are not lesser people. This is deeply wrong.
There's nothing cute or funny about this.